An Investigative Study of Perceptual Mismatches Proposed by Kumaravadivelu in Postmethod Pedagogy

Abstract

Human ideas, conversations and interactions have a huge potential to contain ambiguities and mismatches not only in everyday life, but also in language classrooms where everyday teaching is bound to have exceptions and mismatches. In the 21^stcentury language classrooms, there have always been contradictions between the learner’s understanding of the content and the teacher’s perception of teaching the content It is an everyday challenge for teachers to make classroom teaching innovative and interesting. The reason is that learners do not look at the monotonous classroom teaching as a potential learning event. Successful learning in the classroom happens only when the teacher’s intention of teaching a given task matches with the learner’s proper interpretation of it. Any kind of difficulty in understanding teacher’s intentions becomes learner’s potential mismatches.